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If you’re like us, the last few days of work and reality haven’t dampened your New Year’s spirit, and party stories around the watercooler are still pretty lively: “Yeah, I threw up AND THEN went to sleep!” Well, while we were paying dearly for drinking too much cheap liquor, the rich and fabulous were drinking too much and racing each other in Miami hotel pools. The title kind of says it all, but this video is the best proof we’ve seen yet that the recession just isn’t going to affect some people like it does others, and god bless them for that. After the jump, read our anonymous tipster’s epic retelling of this Battle of the Stars, and then watch the actual footage here. 2009: The Year of Miracles.